Today we have some international highlights. Les Grys Grys come from France and Souls Surfers from Russia. Banditos come from Birmingham AL. Also, some new blasts from the familiar faces: Dave and Phil Alvin are back with the new record as well as John Mayall. Joe Ely is also back and doing very well on the country top 40 albums charts with his new record Panhandle Rambler. Cobra Verde played a live show recently and included their brand new song in the playlist… and the tape was rolling! Big shout-out to our long time listener Tom Haun!
The Gods – Maria;
Tough Age – Flotsam;
Les Grys Grys -It’s Mighty Crazy;
Nomads – The Way (You Touch My Hand);
Cobra Verde – New Song (Live in CLE);
Pat And Lolly Vegas – Satisfaction;
Beatles – Tell Me Why;
Terry And Louie – Can Ya Tell Me (How Life Goes On);
Dirty Fuse – Mdnight Heat Wave;
The Soul Surfers – Raw;
John Mayall – War We Wage;
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Gypsy Eyes (Blues Alphabet);
Dave and Phil Alvin – Sit Down Baby;
Banditos – Golden Grease;
Joe Ely – Honky Tonk Masquerade;
Joe Ely – Southern Eyes;
Leaving Trains – Always Between Wars.
Today we bring you some new sounds from Keith Richards. Thurston Moore Band too – they had a gig in Cleveland where they played their new song Turn On for the first time. Dead Moon and Faces dig into the back-catalog. Dead Moon with a live recording from their 1993 show in Satyricon and Faces reissue all their studio albums in a box set with a few unreleased out-takes. We also introduce some new bands: The Jackets from Switzerland and Delaney Davidson from New Zealand but also via Switzerland (he was in Dead Brothers). Rebel Kind are three ladies from Michigan with a cool record entitled Today.
Today’s show brings us some new names. The Sons of Bido Lito come from Sunderland in England, but they are named after a small old and now defunct club in Hollywood called Bido Lito. Big Quiet come from New York City and Shambles come from San Diego. Shambles share some of the members with True Stories, which we heard last week. Ethan Johns is back with a live album and Lucero have a new studio record.
Here’s what we have this time: Orville Bateman Neely and his OBN IIIs are back with their new album Worth A Lot Of Money. From Sweden, we have the new music from Bäddat För Trubbel and Animal Daydream. The latter are on the Jigsaw record label, and this label prepared an excellent archival recording by a mysterious band called Restless Hearts. Continuing on a power pop note, we have Bart Mendoza and his True Stories. We also introduce a new songwriting name in this show: Joe Hutchinson who goes by the name of Joe Normal.
Today we have some cool new singles by well known bands: legendary Godfathers and King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard. We introduced Zig Zags earlier this year and now they’re back with an EP. Mark Lanegan released an old set of demos dating back to 2002, which really sound exceptionally good. We introduce two new solo artists: Andy Gabbard from Columbus (also in Buffalo Killers) and Bill Lloyd from Nashville. From Macedonia comes Fonija, a punk trio with young folks belting out some impressive tunes.
The first part of today’s show is mostly filled with the new tunes. We start off with the new music from Barrence Whitfield, who continues his furious comeback with a new record called Under a Savage Sky. Then we introduce a new duet from Cleveland Wesley Who, with a live recording of a Prince song. We also introduce Slates from Edmonton, Alberta in Canada – compatriots of Eamon McGrath. Plastic Pals from Sweden are back with the new single. The second part of the show dominates with music of several folks that we lost in the recent days: country music singer Lynn Anderson, record producer Bob Johnston, Flesh Eaters guitarist Stuart Lederer and Eddie Hardin who had a tough job filling Steve Winwood’s shoes in Spencer Davis Group, but also wrote one of my favorite tunes ever Time Seller.
After two vinyl junkyards in a row, we go back to the new (and some old) tunes. Tommy Keene is back with a new record and Dom Mariani (ex Stems) teamed up with another Australian cult musician Greg Hitchcock in a new line up called Datura4. We also introduce two new names for us, Cyanide Pills from Leeds and Destination Lonely from Bordeaux, Toulouse in France. The latter band has an awesome cover of an obscure 60s garage rocker Sun’s Going Down by the Dutch combo called The Outsiders.
This is another one of our Vinyl Junkyard editions at the Little Lighthouse. In Vinyl Junkyard specials I play almost entire LPs that I found dirt cheap somewhere laying in some bargain bin at a record store. This time we have two more albums from the nineties. Nineties were a time where LPs were being phased out on the market in favor of CDs. Still, some important record also saw vinyl versions. Today we have the first album for Gutterball and The Fall-Outs compilation album Here I Come and other Hits. Gutterball was a supergroup consisting of Steve Wynn (ex Dream Syndicate), Bryan Harvey and Johnny Hott (from House of Freaks), Stephen McCarthy (Long Ryders) and Bob Rupe (Silos). It was formed at the moment where Wynn’s solo career was not performing so well, House of Freaks were critically acclaimed, but also failed to chart in the post Nirvana era. Long Ryders and Silos broke apart, so the quintet went into the recording studio over in Richmond with a lot of good songs and great new-found energy. The resulting album was astonishing. Fall-Outs had a string of perfect singles in the late 80s and Estrus Records put them all together in ’93 on a great compilation record.
This is one a Vinyl Junkyard edition of our show. In Vinyl Junkyard specials I play almost entire LPs that I found dirt cheap somewhere laying in some bargain bin at a record store. Usually the stuff comes from The Blue Arrow Records in Cleveland. This time we have two albums from the nineties. Nineties were a time where LPs were being phased out on the market in favor of CDs. Still, some important record also saw vinyl versions and today we bring you Mouthful of Violence by Big Trouble House and Moontime by Anastasia Screamed. These are not just some random albums from the era, but also some of my favorite records ever. It’s a real pleasure to introduce them to you, since the bands and the records went fairly unnoticed at the time and are often missed by the critics too. Big Trouble House are from Minneapolis, lead by the guitar player Phil Harder. After the band failed to leave much mark on the scene, he moved on into making music videos. Anastasia Screamed were from Boston. They were lead by Chick Graning. This band also failed to make much fuss on the scene, so he formed Scarce which became almost famous with their single All Sideways, but Graning suffered from an aneurysm and had a bad case of amnesia. Scarce reformed recently.
Today we start off with an Australian band The On and Ons who serve as a backup band for Paul Collins when he plays over there. But they are also a band on their own and The On and Ons Calling is their new record. The band is consisted of former members of Zeros, Stems and Hoodoo Gurus. This also made me look up Hard-Ons. It turns out, they recently had a new record called Peel Me Like An Egg, which I have overseen until now. Scott Reynolds recorded a new album a couple of months ago in his bedroom, so we check it out. Ultimate Painting are a duet from London (Jack Cooper and James Hoare) and we check them out for the first time here at the Little Lighthouse. Todd Rundgren recently teamed up with two Norwegian artists Emil Nikolaisen and Hans Peter Lindstrøm for an unusual new album called Runddans.